Should people who voted for Brexit be allowed to apply for an Irish Passport?

[Berlinlover]

I have two cousins who were born and raised in England who have an Irish father and an English mother. Both my cousins voted for Brexit and are now applying for Irish passports. I’m Irish and living in Ireland and this makes me absolutely furious. They are both women in their 50s who never wanted an Irish passport until now. They have no interest whatsoever in Irish history and anything related to Ireland. They’re not even embarrassed that they voted for Brexit and see an Irish passport as a way of skipping queues at the airport. It seems so unfair on those who voted to remain but don’t have an Irish parent/grandparent so can’t apply for an Irish passport.

And why would the IRISH government know or care?

Shouldn’t be allowed.
but then if you didn’t vote then you shouldn’t be allowed a passport at all.

It's causing huge backlogs for passport applications , it was an absolute headache for a while and could all kick off again.
Brexit caused millions of extra applications for Irish passports. Do you realise how many people in Britain have Irish ancestry? This was all fine all along but now due to Brexit the Irish passport is extremely attractive. No doubt other EU countries are in a similar situation too.

Of any nationality? Ridiculous comment. My friend didn't vote, she wasn't allowed despite having lived in the UK for 50 years at that time

So are they going to remove he Belgian passport?

SHe lived in the UK long before Brexit even started . They way some people go on it seems they think there was EU forever. But in reality it was 1990s it happened so hardly long in the scheme of things

That's far too trivial a reason to deny people citizenship. There are plenty of other solutions to a backlog in paperwork.

It is weird how many people claiming to be ardently pro-European are both anti-democratic and incapable of looking past the UK's main character syndrome on the international stage.

You don't punish people for voting the "wrong" way, outside a totalitarian state with sham elections. And the conditions other countries put on their citizenship is not for the UK to decide.

I am generally happy for people to take Irish citizenship, as an Irish person. Not Brexit voters though! But it can't be helped, there isn't a test for political views. If you qualify by heritage, that's it.

My DS would be entitled to an Irish passport via his dad. No such luck for me or my younger kids. Oldest DS was too young to vote in the Brexit referendum.

Should say before the EU existed

Hum..........

So you vote to leave the EU which makes travel in and living in Europe much more difficult.

Then they take advantage of their ability to obtain an EU passport so they can travel and live in Europe easily unlike the rest of us.

Then they dont understand why people get upset at them

My Irish mother lived in England for longer than she lived in Ireland, married an English man, had her children here. She never had a good word to say about the place or the people yet she was happy to have full voting, travel, employment etc rights. She came here to get away from the extreme suppression of the Catholic Church in Ireland, the homogeneity, the small town mentality 🤷‍♀️

Yep, right are rights, regardless of whether you happen to like the person or not.

My BIL did this for his kids. Bloody hypocrite!

It's causing huge backlogs for passport applications
There's no huge backlog. There's currently an eight week turnaround for paper applications through the Irish embassy or UK post offices that take Irish applications. It's a hell of a lot faster if you do it online.

My ds once lost his passport when abroad, he holds both UK and Irish passports. I think the one he lost was his Irish one. He needed to leave very quickly since his visa was expiring, so we needed to get an emergency passport in a couple of days. I couldn't even get through to the Irish embassy, but the British embassy have a fairly simple system to get an emergency passport - I don't think I even needed to speak to anyone. So he came home (directly to Ireland) with a UK passport.

BTW - best thing about Irish Passport is the passport card.

“if I can’t have it no one can!”

Waaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

LOL. Mine brought them with her and never lost them.

People don't lose their right to the passport and citizenship because they leave or because they can't stand the place. It isn't Soviet Russia.

Said no one on the thread.